Thread: Very Low Download Speed from Rapidshare at night

I'm using BSNL broadband Home 500 Plan for about 1year. The download speeds at free time 2am to 8am is very frustrating. It goes about 160kbps to 200kbps for uTorrent but when I download files from rapidshare.com at free membership the download speed goes very low (about 8.0 - 9.0kbps) around 2:30am - 3:00am and the speed increases to 30kbps to 50kbps at around 7:56am. I use firefox as browser and I have got the most updated version. With this slow download speed I can't even download a 200mb file in one night. When I only download from rapidshare (do not use uTorrent) speeds are also the same ...

Anyone any help please ???????????

Rapidshare (free) download restrictions:

1. Rapidshare (free) customers do not get full download speeds.
2. Downloads do not begin immediately but some 90-120 seconds delay is programmed in.
3. Download managers are not supported.

But even so, you should be able to get 100 KB/s or so.

I will suggest that you try a RS premium account for a month. It will not cost you a lot. but you can check whether the premium account makes any difference at all. At least you will be able to rule out the possibility that free user is the cause or not.

It will be useless to complain to BSNL because:

1. BSNL does not guarantee 2 mbps. It guaratees 256 kbps minimum and anyhting up to 2 mbps.
2. The speeds are guarateed within the BSNL network and not on the internet.
3. You say that torrents are giving you 160~200 kB/s. So that is not the issue. What about downloads from other sites, e.g., Microsoft, Yahoo, etc.?

BSNL will come back to you and say that RS is the problem and not them.

I have a RS premium account and I use Orbit Download Manager. I only download 1 file at a time. The download speed depends on my system speed also.
Sometimes I extract huge files while downloading and the speed comes down to about 80-90 KBPS. Or else I get an Avg Speed of 150-180 KBPS.

strange case !!! what is ur system config, cpu speed ????
if ur system is very weak, multitasking may weaken cpu usage capabilities of programs , in this case Orbit downloader.

I have got that problem on BSNL.


What I have noticed is BSNL slows down System speed. I was using another Cable net since 1 year and I never got any system speed problems. Though I keep my system updated,I expireance problems.

Originally Posted by brodbnd

I'm using BSNL broadband Home 500 Plan for about 1year. The download speeds at free time 2am to 8am is very frustrating. It goes about 160kbps to 200kbps for uTorrent but when I download files from rapidshare.com at free membership the download speed goes very low (about 8.0 - 9.0kbps) around 2:30am - 3:00am and the speed increases to 30kbps to 50kbps at around 7:56am. I use firefox as browser and I have got the most updated version. With this slow download speed I can't even download a 200mb file in one night. When I only download from rapidshare (do not use uTorrent) speeds are also the same ...

Anyone any help please ???????????

some server speeds are choked during night unlimited

there will be lot of people especially bsnl users who download thru rapid share during night ul

so the server r busy and hence low speeds,for you its only rapid share,for me almost 99% sites are slow and my download speed is around 500kbps -700 kbps,during night ul

hey friends but i have different experience in free hours. look at the download speed what the hell is this i got 2.3 mb/sec . but i do some adjustments in tcp settings...

thats gr8, what changes u made in tcp

ya.. thats great.. what settings in tcp can be changed that can lead to 2.3 mbps?

hmmmm, he just vanished, i guess i will never know.

Originally Posted by Evander Leopold

hmmmm, he just vanished, i guess i will never know.

i guess.. we will never know...:yawn:

Hi iam chandu iam using bsnl500plan i will nearly 190~200kbps from all the websites but from a week days iam nit getting the download speeds iam only getting 50kbps.I had tested my bandwidth speed its showing like this,but iam only getting low speeds can any one help with this issue?plzzzzzz.........

send a result of speed from Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test i think cable fault in sea may be reason

Originally Posted by luckysingh111

hey friends but i have different experience in free hours. look at the download speed what the hell is this i got 2.3 mb/sec . but i do some adjustments in tcp settings...

but in that screenshot u have made.. the time is 2:32pm.. so ur downloading a file in the afternoon .. not in the night b/w 2-8 where BSNL is restricting the traffic and making it route through choked gateways.

Originally Posted by luckysingh111

hey friends but i have different experience in free hours. look at the download speed what the hell is this i got 2.3 mb/sec . but i do some adjustments in tcp settings...

FOR TCP SETTING PLZ.....GO
(speedguide.net/tcpoptimizer.php) FOLLOW BY HTTP....
THEN PLZ POST RESULT

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Recently i am also facing the same problem.
At night download speed from rapidshare varies from 2-8 kbps,
but at day time it varies from 150-200 kbps.
This problem of rapidshare download has occured to me since last one month.

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Can any one help me what the Download speed of bsnl 500 home plans at night in Ranchi(Jharkhand)!!!!!

Originally Posted by brodbnd

I'm using BSNL broadband Home 500 Plan for about 1year. The download speeds at free time 2am to 8am is very frustrating. It goes about 160kbps to 200kbps for uTorrent but when I download files from rapidshare.com at free membership the download speed goes very low (about 8.0 - 9.0kbps) around 2:30am - 3:00am and the speed increases to 30kbps to 50kbps at around 7:56am. I use firefox as browser and I have got the most updated version. With this slow download speed I can't even download a 200mb file in one night. When I only download from rapidshare (do not use uTorrent) speeds are also the same ...

Anyone any help please ???????????

Rapidshare hates users on dynamic Ip's.. Rapidshare even banned BSNl users from acessing their site for a few days. So a low speed is expected. Premium users have full speed upto 230KBps I've tested it as I had premium account..

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my download speed is 1-2 kbps n disconnects awithin 2-3 min - this happens b/w 2-8 + as call is received broadband disconnects... bsnl has nt taken any action of the complains.. plan: home 500 combo...

i have home 500 bsnl..... a premium rs account , i use idm and i download 2 files at a time,, during the night ir from 2 am to 8 am i nearly download 4 gb a day ,,,, , rs delivers very good speed especially the premium account, if ur not getting it mm then try to change the download manager or check in another os if u have ,. . ..

Try jdownloader........ also try to find mirror links for rar files that may be splitted.....
eg, download the first part from RS, 2nd from hotfile etc using simultaneous downloads..... That seems to be the only way to deal with low speeds.....